Policy Coherence for DevelopmentThe second greatest number of blog posts during the past 12 months related to “policy coherence for Development”: the commitment by EU member states not to undermine their development cooperation programmes through other policies (eg. trade, agriculture, etc) that impact on poor countries. (see also this blog post)

NGO overhead costs
We encourage anyone to ask critical questions of NGOs. Just make sure your questions focus on the quality of the work of the organisation – The ever-popular measure of the level of overheads is about the worst place to start. This article attempts to show why. (See also this blog post about NGOs, and this discussion of “what makes a good NGO?”)